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Novena, The Crowdsourced, Fully-Open Laptop, Is Shipping This Winter
May 18, 6:18PM
Hardware magician Bunnie Huang's Novena laptop, a completely open source computing machine, is fully funded and will ship in January. There are thirteen hours left in the crowdfunding effort but so far the system has surpassed its goal of $100,000 and is one course to raise over $500,000. Read MoreWhat Games Are: Welcome Back, Xbox One
May 18, 5:14PM
In the tech press the news that Kinect got unbundled from Xbox One has been received as a sign of the company backing away from the future, but in the games press the news has been well received. Why? Because nobody really that vision of the future wasn't exciting. Read MoreWePay Withholds Funds From Sick Woman Due To Offer Of Porn For Donations
May 18, 4:51AM
Should credit card processors and crowdfunding sites be able to deny funds to adult entertainers and sex workers? That's the thorny question at the heart of an unfortunate situation where donated medical funds are being withheld from a sick woman. Legal and moral issues entangle to facilitate descrimination against those who earn a living off their bodies, or at least complicate their lives in… Read MoreThe End Of The Acqui-Hire?
May 18, 1:00AM
A few years ago, before seed investing was as well defined as it now is, I co-hosted a bean bag sitting circle at The Lobby on the topic of "the seed round." While I assumed the topic would appeal primarily to founders thinking about their next startups, we had a surprising number of industry players -- the large monolithic cash hoarder and sizzle brands that buy so many startups, early and… Read MoreFor Aspiring Female Engineers, A Square Meal Of Code
May 17, 8:00PM
“I thought I had to be a guy to be an engineer,” she told me as she was siting in the Square offices nearby her home in the Tenderloin, only days away from taking the AP Computer Science test. But Nguyen still held some small hope for being part of this world — she would read publications online that gave her an inside view into technology. She was reading TechCrunch last fall… Read MoreCue Is A Connected Lab-In-A-Box For On-Demand Health Testing At Home
May 17, 7:00PM
The quantified self and quantified health trends frequently overlap -- but few startups are quite as tightly screwed into that sticking place as Cue. Not yet anyway. This San Diego-based startup is building a hybrid electronic-mechanical-chemical connected device that it says will enable people to quantify their health at a molecular level. Read MoreGillmor Gang: Fits and Starts
May 17, 4:59PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — take a walk on the wild side as The New York Times publishes all the news that fits. Except, that is, the news about itself. The Twitterverse is clogged with leaked Innovation reports, business model Kremlin Wall analysis, and newsroom disappearances galore. For the record, we also stop in for… Read MoreWith A Revamped Website, Geek Culture Hub Nerdist Enters "Phase Two"
May 17, 4:01PM
When I got on the phone with the team at Nerdist Industries to talk about the geek culture site's recent redesign, I had a confession to make — even though I'm a regular listener to the Nerdist podcast, and I've watched a number of their YouTube videos, I'd only been to the actual website ... Once? Twice? My experience might not be typical, but it's one illustration of how Nerdist fans aren't… Read MoreThe Western Twitterer's Burden
May 17, 1:00PM
Sigh. Here we go again. The eyes of the world turn to something awful happening in a remote corner of Africa, and what feels like half of the Western population immediately rushes to proudly embarrass itself on social media everywhere. On the Internet, at least, #BringBackOurGirls is little more than #Kony2012 reloaded. It's condescending, it's patronizing, it's infantilizing, and it's dumb. Read MoreQleek Brings Your Music Back In To The Physical Realm
May 17, 3:07AM
When I first heard about Qleek I was a little skeptical. You see, it's a music player that uses physical, wooden blocks called Tapps to activate digital playback. You want to listen to some Jazz? Find the Coltrane block and stick it into the player. Want to listen to OK Computer? Dig out the block and slot it to make yourself a little fitter and happier. It's like the old days of physical media… Read More2008 TechCrunch50 Finalist TrueCar Goes Public, Raises $70M In Its IPO
May 17, 2:41AM
Today TrueCar, a company that was selected as a finalist in the 2008 TechCrunch50 event went public, raising around $70 million and gaining nearly 12% to end its first day as a public company at $10.06 per share. The company priced its shares at $9 apiece. That final price was steeply under its expected range of $12 to $14 per share. The current IPO market, for most, is somewhat unsettled.… Read MoreApple And Google Agree To Dismiss All Direct Legal Action Between Themselves
May 17, 1:26AM
Late today, Apple and Google announced that they have agreed to dismiss direct lawsuits aimed at one another, and will work together to help push patent reform forward. It’s a huge change for the two companies, which compete on everything from music sales, to productivity tools, to cloud storage, to mobile app distribution, and so forth. According to a source speaking to GigaOm, about 20… Read MoreSwitchcam Video Shuts Down, Facebook Hires Founders
May 17, 12:23AM
Facebook's mobile video feature is pathetic. No multi-shot recording, multi-clip uploads, stabilization, or editing. Hopefully it will get an update soon, though, as a source has tipped me off that last month Facebook hired the founders of Switchcam, a startup that specialized in video sharing. The founders Chris Hartley and Bret Welch both now list Facebook as their employer, and Switchcam has… Read MoreCrunchWeek: Net Neutrality, Big Late-Stage Raises, And Snapchat's Latest Features
May 17, 12:12AM
This week is all about CrunchWeek East, as we're bringing this episode to you from AOL HQ in New York. Anthony Ha, Jon Schieber and myself dive into the most recent madness in the industry, including but not limited to the new proposals around net neutrality law, major late-stage raises from companies like Uber, Airbnb, Pinterest, and others, as well as the latest Snapchat features that take… Read More
The Zeus Is A 3D Printer, Scanner, And Teleportation Machine All In One
May 16, 9:23PM
The future, as they say, is already here, but it's just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, "fax" objects to other printers. That's right - it's the first 3D all-in-one. Read MoreThe Once And Future Web Platform
May 16, 9:15PM
As a developer, articles declaring the death of the web are easy to dismiss out of hand. It's not unusual or unexpected for people to predict (or herald the arrival of) the next big thing and declare the status quo dead. Yet despite the mobile explosion over the past few years, the web is going to remain the dominant software platform for the foreseeable future. First, let me say that by web I… Read MoreAfter Pushing Ahead With Net Neutrality Vote, FCC Chairman To Face Congress On Tuesday
May 16, 8:38PM
Following the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to move ahead with new open Internet rules that could allow for some companies to pay for faster delivery of their content online, calls of protest have sprouted from Internet companies and activists alike. What’s next? FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler will head to congress on May 20 for a sitdown that should prove contentious. When it… Read MoreThe App Store Is Proof We're In Idiocracy
May 16, 8:18PM
The number one game in the iTunes App Store is a game about selling weed. Yes, really. The app, “Weed Firm,” however, looks brilliant when compared to what comes next: it sits just above yet another fairly dumb, time-waster of a game called “100 Balls,” reminiscent of beer pong. And that’s followed “Toilet Time,” which offers you quick games to play… Read MoreZendesk's Stellar IPO And The Current Tech IPO Climate
May 16, 8:08PM
Following a nearly 50% pop on its first day of trading on Thursday, Zendesk is up double digits again today, rising more than 11% in midday trading. For tech companies and their investors, it’s a sign that the IPO window, recently worried to be either closed or rapidly closing, isn’t, for the right kind of company. And investors are not as closed minded to the intricacies of… Read MoreGillmor Gang Live 05.16.14
May 16, 8:07PM
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